Since Analog1 (also 2.20GHz AMD Athlon 64, but WinXP Pro) crashed and
burned, I'm pondering what to replace it with. Mark/qrk is the
resident expert on benchmarking. There's so much Intel malarkey out
there, it's difficult to know what would be best for a simulation
machine.
...Jim Thompson
My cheap i3 laptop would sim circles around those, so $400. You could
likely get an ATOM that would do it pretty fast too.
Can't beat Costco sometimes. But better and cheaper is already out
there too. Kinda wished I'd waited.
But if you want *the best*, splurge and build your own machine with a
new LG2011 socket W79 motherboard, and a superior EVGA vid card. It takes
a while to build the box, PS, and get your HDs and Disc drives and fans
first. THEN get the MOBO, CPU, and RAM. They get cheaper over time, so
you buy those last.
A good, hot, cutting edge build starts at around $2k and goes up from
there. A dual Xeon could run $3k each just for the processors.
Those build do hold *some* of their value though.
My Atom runs circles around my old 486 EISA though, and I thought that
was a hot box, and my Atom is a full computer for $300.